Craigslist Crapshoot

Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. 

You’ve no doubt heard the maxim about making a silk purse from a sow’s ear, a transformation that would be laudable to everyone but my dog who would really rather chew on the pig’s ear. Last week’s litany of left for dead cars and trucks certainly demonstrated that a lot of people have similar starry-eyed  expectations. We’ll get to the saddest result – or maybe it’s the most in need of rescue – in just a sec. But first, this week’s business.

School’s out, or will be soon, and you know what that means… that’s right, Summer School! Well, for those of you who paid attention in class it also means summer family vacations, and for those of us who care less about the ultimate destination than how we get there that means finding a too-cool for summer school family hauler. To that end, let’s find all the family wagons we can, with just a couple of stipulations – they need to be running and in sufficiently solid state of running to make for a decent road trip, and, they need to be brown. Yeah, that just happened.

As always, we want your finds to go down in infamy and not in the site’s spam filter. Follow any of the following advice and you’re crap will be known far and wide.

If you’re into triply music then you no doubt know the Australian ambient noise band Dead Can Dance. If you’re looking for Dead Can Drive then look  no further than last week’s collection of amazing road ruin that is being offered by what can best be described as a group of eternal optimists. Which car or truck that ‘ran when parked’ is most desirable to get running again? Well, I picked this amazing Buick Eight found by James and offered up on the edge of some dark woods in New York’s Hudson Valley. I think I like it so much because it reminds me, alternately, of a girlfriend I once had and the lizard people from Flash Gordon. Way to go James!